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...initial offer but analysts now expect NTL to increase its bid by around 10%. "The market is telling us that it's still expecting this deal to go through," says Laura Mills of Merrill Lynch in London. Pay-TV operator British Sky Broadcasting is buying the British broadband network Easynet for $367 million. Deutsche Telekom is trying to buy back the outstanding shares of T-Online, the Internet services arm it spun off at the height of the dotcom boom. And Italy's Tiscali and Fastweb are reported to be seeking investors to help them take on Telecom Italia...
...High-ranking federal police officials, as well as some presidential candidates, have charged privately that certain member countries of the UN Mission have been complicit in the kidnapping network, either by taking payments from cash-flush gangs to look the other way or supplying them with weapons. UN Mission spokesman David Wimhurst vehemently denies the accusations: "If the government is serious, it should come forward and offer proof. Otherwise, it's just another nasty rumor attacking MINUSTAH...
...trying to break the show out of its old structures. “We did a lot of lampooning [of mainstream soap operas] last year,” she says, and claims that the show will now be more like the night-time dramas of the WB television network. “We’re not just casting characters as ‘bitches’ anymore,” says Gagnon. The staff has also undergone a major streamlining effort to expedite the show’s production, and has revamped the official website. Stores such as Planet...
...Treo connects to Verizon's BroadbandAccess highspeed wireless data Network - provided, that is, you live in within its service area and have the appropriate plan. It makes sense to have rapid access to the Internet, so the Today screen puts a web-search window within easy reach. The folks at Palm take pride in the fact that Microsoft let them use their first choice of search engine - Google - and I'm pretty happy about that...
...Finland). Exhibits show how to create and hide coded messages, tell the story of celebrity spies such as master chef Julia Child and Hollywood star Marlene Dietrich, and offer a glimpse of espionage in biblical times. Donaldson saw items ranging from a 1777 letter by George Washington authorizing a network of spies in New York City to a latter-day camera so tiny that it is concealed in a button. "I grew up in the cold war, where we sat under our desks in school during drills and hoped that we wouldn't be bombed," she says. "The Spy Museum...